We are grateful for the research of Elaine M. Stephens of the LaVernia Historical Association in providing the following links that may help you find out more of your family history as well as that of Wilson County:

TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
 http://www.thc.state.tx.us/index.html

TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION - ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MARKERS
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/

TEXAS STATE CEMETERY
 http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/database.asp

HISTORICAL SITES IN WILSON COUNTY
 http://www.forttours.com/pages/hmwilson.asp#texas

LA VERNIA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
www.laverniahistory.com

Info about Denhawken,  Kosciusko, Pandora, Stockdale and more,
go to www.sklossfarmservice.com, then click on "About Us"  Very interesting!

WILSON COUNTY PUBLIC RECORDS
 http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/wilson/

WILSON COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICE
http://wilson-tx.tamu.edu/

TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT
This contains a search engine for the site and links to all the counties in  Texas : http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/Texas/

WILSON COUNTY NEWS
www.wilsoncountynews.com

Floresville Chamber of Commerce
www.floresvillechamber.org

South Texas Historical Association
 http://archives.tamuk.edu/STHA.html

INTERNET GENEALOGY LINKS

Wilson County, Texas, RootsWeb
 http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/cemph/wilsonph.html

Wilson County, Texas, Genealogy Forum Message Board (GenForum):  http://genforum.genealogy.com/tx/wilson/

Birthdate Calculator: http://searchforancestors.com/utility/birthday.html

10,000 Year Calculator: http://calendarhome.com/tyc/   (Find out what day a certain date fell on.)

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet:  http://www.cyndislist.com/   (thousands of genealogy links)

DAR Patriot Look-up Service (free):  http://www.dar.org/natsociety/PI_lookup.cfm?Rt=OV&ID=

Everton Publishers:  http://www.everton.com/

Family Search.Org:  http://www.familysearch.org/   (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

GHOTES:  http://www.esva.net/ghotes/index.htm   (Genealogy & History of the Eastern Shore --Accomack & Northampton Counties of  Virginia; very, very good)

Worldwide records:  http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/wggenweb/   (from the US GenWeb)

RootsWeb (home page):  http://www.rootsweb.com/

RootsWeb's Texas Death Records (1964 - 1998):  http://vitals.rootsweb.com/tx/death/search.cgi

RootsWeb WorldConnect Project Global Search:  http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi

RootsWeb's Index of Public records: Index of /pub/usgenweb http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/  (lists the public records in text  form for each state in the U.S.)

Social Security Death Interactive Search:  http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

U S GenWeb: http://www.usgenweb.com/  (Each state has a page loaded with information.)

Texas State Library & Archives Commission:  http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/

Texas Adjutant General Service Records (1836-1935):  http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/service/index.html  (Search for records  of members of the Texas Rangers.)

Vitalsearch Worldwide:  http://www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com/

Vitalsearch Texas State Portal:  http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/gen/tx/tx_.htm   (has birth, marriage and divorce records)

Newspapers of the United States:  http://www.usnpl.com/  (lists most newspapers of all the states)

Some pay sites:

Ancestry.Com  http://www.ancestry.com/main1.htm

Genealogy.Com  http://genforum.genealogy.com/  (This site is free, but requires  a membership fee for access to their records.)

CIVIL WAR SEARCH SITES

These sites were given in the April 2005 edition  of the National Geographic on the last page as a good resource for finding  confederate soldiers or sailors:

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/

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